very cloudy brew with yeast flakes

[doverox]

hello again everyone,
just checked on my session ale, which has been sitting in the primary for 3 weeks at 66 degrees with us-05. added a sack of hop pellets and am planning to bottle on friday.
however, it's really cloudy and there's a bunch of sediment in it that to me looks like dehydrated yeast. but this is my first batch so i don't know what to compare it to or what is typical. the mouthfeel of the sample i took was pretty chunky. i used whirfloc.
it's tasting ok although definitely needed the dry hopping.

was going to cold crash the night before. considering gelatin.

any thoughts? thanks!

 

[Dawgs47]

Cold crashing should help clear it.

 

[drainbamage]

Cold-crashing helps. Also, you can put a paint strainer bag over your auto-siphon when you transfer to filter some of the crap out.

And of course, make sure to rack around the junk on the bottom of the fermenter.

 

[C-Rider]

perhaps put off the bottling and cold crash for a week.

 

[doverox]

perhaps put off the bottling and cold crash for a week.

is it ok to cold crash while still dryhopping? i am using hops with a high oil level (galaxy and citra)

 

[C-Rider]

I think so. I've got an IPA i plan to cold crash and dry hop at the same time. Wonder if it works???? LOL

 

[doverox]

I think so. I've got an IPA i plan to cold crash and dry hop at the same time. Wonder if it works???? LOL

i dry hopped with a hop bag for 3 days first and then cold crashed for 3 with the hop bag still in it. worked quite well, really nice aroma.

oh and the cold crashing COMPLETELY fixed the haze issue. my brew was crystal clear. definitely will not skip this step with most styles.